Genesis 44:6

6 When he overtook them he spoke these words to them.

Genesis 44:6 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 44:6

And he overtook them
Their asses being laden with corn could not travel very fast, and he and his attendants being mounted on swift horses: and he spake unto them these same words;
that Joseph had ordered him to say, and so what follows particularly, ( Genesis 44:10 ) .

Genesis 44:6 In-Context

4 They went out of the city, [and] had not gone far when Joseph said to [the one] who [was] over his house, "Arise! Pursue after the men and overtake them. Then you shall say to them, 'Why have you repaid evil for good?

5 Is this not that from which my master drinks? Now he himself certainly practices divination with it. You have done evil [in] what you have done.'"

6 When he overtook them he spoke these words to them.

7 And they said to him, "Why has my lord spoken according to these words? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!

8 Behold, the money that we found in the mouth of our sacks we returned to you from the land of Canaan. Now why would we steal silver or gold from the house of my lord?